"I came but to see that you weren't the victim of another murder attempt."
"How come you survived the murder attempt and the others didn't?"
This murder attempt had come too soon after the earlier traumatic scene.
In the second film, we learn that his wife's death was actually a murder attempt on Martin himself, gone wrong.
He claimed it was a murder attempt by the police.
This murder attempt, reported in September 1896 by the international press, was very nearly successful.
"Because the woman came to see you on the murder attempts?"
Following his murder attempt, he left town and presumably returned to Europe.
Had it been a murder attempt they would have found him long before the dawn.
The murder attempt of which he was victim does not surprise me.